Category Archives: Gardening

Just because it’s after Labor Day…don’t pack away the Sun protection! Summer may be officially over, the kids are back in school, the days are getting shorter. While you might be packing the beach towels away in favor of the … Continue reading →

I HATE wasting food so I was none too pleased when I dropped an entire brand new bag of peanuts on the not-clean-enough-to-eat-off kitchen floor. I can’t throw the nuts on the ground or the distracted festing birds will just … Continue reading →

Ahhhhhhh I hate ANTS! After a long day of gardening and putting up a shade sail over the hammock I flumped into it for a well deserved rest. Then promptly leaped back out of it as a wave of ants swarmed over my … Continue reading →

Remember most sunscreens need to be applied 20-30 minutes BEFORE going out in the sun, that’s how long it takes for them to START working. Sunscreen must be reapplied EVERY 2 hours, more often after swimming, sweating or Toweling off

Weeds are a time and water consuming pest, if like me, you are fed up with them always showing up in the wrong place but you don’t want to add to ground water pollution give these low toxic homemade herbicides … Continue reading →

California faces its most severe drought emergency in decades; we are now in our 3rd consecutive year of below-normal rainfall. Governor Jerry Brown has called for Californians to reduce water use by 20 percent voluntarily, and mandatory rationing could be … Continue reading →